Dimensions of transformation in the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval age to modernity : in memory of Metin Kunt / edited by Seyfi Kenan, Selçuk Akşin Somel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Firman issued by Mustafa the son of Bayezid I surnamed Düzme (1422) / Elizabeth A. Zachariadou -- Imaginary voyages, imagined Ottomans: a gentleman impostor, the Köprülüs, and seventeenth-century French Oriental romances / Tülay Artan -- Practices of remembrance and sites of violence in seventeenth-century Istanbul: the beheading of Şeyh İsmâil Maʼşûkî (d.1539) / Aslı Niyazioğlu -- Ottoman artisans in a changing political context: debates in historiography / Suraiya Faroqi -- Türbedār of the Ottoman sultans: ŞevkīÇelebi's Nostalgia for the Bursa of Bayezid Han and Emir Sultan / Fatih Bayram -- The personal anthology of an Ottoman litterateur: Celâlzâde Sâlih (d.1565) and his Mecmua / Cornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Şahin -- Transforming the abode of war into the abode of Islam: a local Grandee in Ottoman Hungary, Osman Ağa, Çelebi and Bey / Pál Fodor -- Making recommendations: Azmizade and the Mahzar for Vücudi Efendi, 1608 / Christine Woodhead -- A poet's warning: Veysi's poem on the breakdown of Ottoman social and political life in the seventeenth century / Mehmet Kalpaklı -- From the 'Scribe of Satan' to the 'Master of Belagat': Ottoman chief scribes and the rhetorics of political survival in the seventeenth century / Ekin Tuşalp-Atiyas -- The compass and the astrolabe: empiricism in the Ottoman Empire / B. Harun Küçük -- In search of the ancient law or Kanun-i Kadim: some notes on seventeenth-century Ottoman political thought / Mehmet Öz -- Between a 'brilliant retreat' and a 'tragic defeat': Ottoman narratives of the 1529 and 1683 sieges of Vienna / N. Zeynep Yelçe -- Bidʼat, custom and legal change: the debate on the congregational performance of supererogatory prayers in seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire / Derin Terzioğlu -- The Sicils of Karaferye (Veroia) in the eighteenth century: a case of transformation? / Antonis Anastasopoulos -- Ottoman legal change and the Şeriat courts in the long nineteenth century / Iris Agmon -- Transformation through constitution: young Ottomans and the Kanun-i Esasi of 1876 / Cemil Koçak -- Repertoires of empire: how did the Ottomans last so long in a changing world? / Karl K. Barbir

"Eighteen expert researchers have come together to provide original articles and new perspectives on transformation throughout Ottoman history in order to honor the life's work of Metin Kunt. Kunt's work revolutionized our understanding of change in Ottoman political, social and cultural history in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This new collection focuses on the contributions of key players in these fields and includes chapters on Ottoman artisans in a changing political context, Ottoman chief scribes and the rhetorics of political survival in the 17th century, and empiricism in the Ottoman Empire"-- Provided by publisher.